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Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
There are a lot of different motivations among the people who contributed to the OT Font Variations specification. James has mentioned only one of the benefits of the technology, which was a primary …5 -
Re: Modification Briefs - Best practices
I don't have a standard policy on allowing or prohibiting modification. Unlike Hrant, I think either policy can be culturally valid, and where I am wary of allowing modification it is specifically be…16 -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
This morning, I've been having flashbacks or feelings of deja vu. So many of the opinions or arguments that are skeptical or hostile with regard to variable fonts are exactly the ones I remember from…20 -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
With the caveat, of course, that the fallback display in an environment that does not support variable fonts will be the Ultra Light outlines (at least, for TTF; there is no fallback for CFF2 fonts i…3 -
Re: [OTVar] Naming arbitrary instances
@"Ray Larabie" To expand a bit on what Peter said: axis tags work very much like Stylistic Set or Character Variant OTL features. It is possible to define a name for a custom tag, and this …4
